The Lyttelton Papers. The Property of the Viscount Cobham de [LYTTELTON Family] - 1978

London: Sotheby's, 1978. original green boards decorated and lettered in black. Fine. Quarto. Profusely illustrated The catalogue describes 181 items, relating to the Lyttelton family, Worcestershire and English history. The items include medieval charters, historical letters and documents running from the twelfth century to the Glorious Revolution. Among them are Royal Letters Patent of Kings John and Henry III. The manuscript by Thomas Habington of the first history of Worcestershire. Papers from individual members of the family in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ...letters from Horace Walpole, Mrs. Montagu, Boswell, Johnson, Garrick, Swift, Voltaire, Pope, the elder Pitt, Pelham, Bolingbroke, Chesterfield and many more ....